June 28th, 2005 by Brian Robbins
The Traveler is an advergame / ARG promoting “The Traveler” by John Twelve Hawks.
Your role is to learn more about various characters from the book by using a variety of surveillance tools available in the game.
What I liked: The game is huge! There’s a lot more here than any other advergame I’ve seen recently, and […]
June 28th, 2005 by Brian Robbins
Bell’s Moving Day Madness is an advergame promoting Bell’s e-Move service.
Your role as the player is to move as much stuff into your new location as possible. You do this while clicking on boxes or bigger items, and shoving them through the door. You also need to fight against your lazy and unhelpful “help.”
What I […]
June 27th, 2005 by Brian Robbins
Frusion Breakfast Brawl is an advergame promoting Dannon’s Frusion. The game is a Flash-based pixel art game. The gameplay is basically a remix of the old Punch Out boxing game.
You play as a tiny scrawny little player, and have to figure your way past 4 “unsatisfying breakfast” opponents. The controls are a bit complex for […]
June 21st, 2005 by Brian Robbins
Newshunter 2: Beat the Press is a new game on the Comedy Central website. The game is a real-time 3D Shockwave game.
Gameplay consists of the player first selecting their Comedy Central personality, then driving their news van to try to batter the enemy networks van into submission before time runs out.
The graphics on this game […]